Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum's weak Popular Front government in 1936. By the weekend, the fast-spreading wave of strikes had squeezed transportation to a crawl, crippled mail service and both Paris airports...
Forty Abreast. The country's major labor unions opened the week with an illegal but half-successful one-day general strike. More than half a million Frenchmen-led by student militants who were joined by workers, teachers and opposition politicians-staged one of the largest protest marches in Paris history. Forty abreast, they paraded for five hours through midcity, singing the Communist Internationale and chanting such slogans as "De Gaulle resign" and "De Gaulle to the museum." No violence marred that procession; police stayed carefully away. But in provincial cities, cops and students fought battles with tear...
Among the student strike leaders last week, few were more in evidence than a chubby, confident sociology major named Daniel Cohn-Bendit, 23, a self-styled anarchist who says he aims for "the suppression of capitalist society." At Nanterre, it was "Danny the Red" who stirred up so much trouble among its 12,000 students that authorities panicked and closed the place down. That lifted Cohn-Bendit from obscurity to notoriety, and all week long he moved from rally to rally, haranguing the Left Bank students as they groped for a sense of direction in their revolt against the government...
...demonstrations lost some of their steam. The third and final reading, at which time the bill would become law, is scheduled for next week, and passage seems almost certain. On the same day, however, the Socialist German Students' League has called for a general strike, hoping that labor will-at last-come around to its side...
...S.D.S. radicals seem willing to pay the price of their convictions. Unlike Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., a 43-year-old rebel who is willing to go to jail to dramatize his opposition to the draft and the Viet Nam war, Columbia's student strike leaders are demanding, among other things, total amnesty for violating the law. There is the irony that neither Mark Rudd nor most of the other Columbia S.D.S. leaders were even in occupied buildings during the battle with police three weeks ago. Thus they were not among those arrested on criminal-trespass charges...